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James Surowiecki is a staff writer at the New Yorker, where he writes the bi-weekly business column "The Financial Page." His work has appeared in a wide range of publications, including, among others, the New York Times Magazine, the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, and Wired. He's the author of the recently released book The Wisdom of Crowds, in which he argues that under the right circumstances groups are often smarter than even their smartest members.

Om Malik is the founder of GigaOmniMedia, Inc., an online news and weblog that delivers technology news, analysis, and opinions to a monthly global audience of one million consumers and professionals interested in the world of hi-tech. His daily rants on tech/telecom and broadband can be found at http://gigaom.com.

Before launching his own publishing venture, Malik was a senior writer for Business 2.0 magazine covering telecom and broadband stories. He has covered technology and telecom for over a decade for publications like Forbes and Red Herring, and has contributed to The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, and MIT Technology Review. Malik is the author of .

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Ted Leonsis is known as one of the country’s premiere businessmen having held numerous leadership positions at AOL. He is also a professional sports team owner, a film producer, a private-angel investor, an active Board member and a committed philanthropist.

During his 14-year career with AOL, the company enjoyed its greatest periods of growth and financial success. Ted now serves as Vice Chairman Emeritus, having stepped down from day-to-day management at AOL on December 31, 2006. He has served as AOL Vice Chairman as well as President of several business units including the AOL Services Company; AOL Studios; AOL Web Services; AOL Core Service and the AOL Audience Business.

Ted is now the Chairman of Revolution Money, an innovative new Web 2.0 payment platform and credit-card service created to transform the financial services industry by drastically altering the economics through Internet-based technology. This new payment platform also generates significant merchant and consumer benefits. Revolution Money, formerly GratisCard Inc., is a subsidiary of Revolution LLC, the investment company created by Steve Case.

Gary Arlen is President of Arlen Communications Inc., a Washington-area research and consulting firm specializing in converging media, telecommunications and information services. Arlen's primary focus is on the applications and services enabled by digital, broadband and interactive media platforms for residential and enterprise deployments. Gary's current work focuses on interactive content, including marketing and advertising and their relationships to distribution technology.

He is also a partner in the Alwyn Group LLC, a competitive services consultancy.

Rohit leads the interactive marketing team at Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide and is a founding member of the pioneering Digital Influence Group at Ogilvy – a leading agency in helping clients navigate the social media universe. He publishes the award winning Influential Marketing blog (www.influentialmarketingblog.com) and has been featured in dozens of publications worldwide including The Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek, Fast Company, PRWeek, The Globe & Mail (Canada), Marketing China (China) and AdWeek (Australia).

He is a frequent speaker on marketing and social media and is currently authoring a book focused on the necessity of putting personality into marketing called Personality Not Included which will be published by McGraw-Hill in early 2008.

Jeff Barr is focused on furthering awareness of web services and inspiring developers to create innovative applications using Amazon Web Services. Barr meets regularly with developers throughout the U.S. and abroad to introduce Amazon Web Services' expanding platform and showcase businesses that currently utilizes the program's services.

Barr joined Amazon in August 2002 as a Senior Software Developer on the Associates team and has a longstanding interest in Web services and programmatic information interchange. He has held development and management positions at Microsoft, KnowNow, eByz, Akopia, was a co-founder of Visix Software, and launched the news feed service, Syndicat8.com. He earned his bachelor's degree in computer science from American University and completed graduate work in computer science at George Washington University.

Over his twelve-year career in information technology, Jean-Paul Boucher has proven his capability for enterprise architecture, information security and assurance, requirements analysis, advanced technology research and customer service focus. Mr. Boucher has worked with all branches of the federal, state and local governments to develop and perform various technology services ranging from Continuity of Operations policies to enterprise server management. As the Director of SRA International’s Wireless Integration Services, he presents wireless technology capabilities and limitations, develops policy guidance, consults on a variety of classified and unclassified projects, and performs pilot and enterprise implementations, including some of the largest wireless solutions in the federal sector. With his support, SRA has deployed over 400,000 wireless devices and currently has over 211 active wireless technology engagements. As part of SRA’s Advanced Programs organization, Jean-Paul has developed several next-generation solutions for customers, including virtual worlds, speech recognition tools and video podcasting.

His expertise has made him a sought after speaker for industry events, such as the Wireless Enterprise Symposium, government-focused conferences and television appearances, such as the Washington DC’s Fox affiliate news team’s wireless expert and commentator. Mr. Boucher graduated from Georgetown University in 1998 with a B.A. in History. As an internationally recognized expert in wireless technology, Mr. Boucher continues to provide wireless solutions to meet the mission critical needs of the government. In recognition of his service to government customers and his ability to deploy wireless solutions, Mr. Boucher was awarded to the 2007 Federal Computing Week Federal 100.

Lee Buck is the co-founder and Chief Technology Office of Near-Time. Lee has served as an advisor, investor and board member of various local and regional technology companies. Previously, Lee was the co-founder and CTO of Extensibility, Inc. a leading provider of XML tools, acquired by TIBCO Software, Inc. in September 2000. After the acquisition Lee served as TIBCO's VP & Chief Scientist, XML Technologies. Lee is a recognized authority on XML and schema and has helped shape a number of Internet standards by serving on committees such as the W3C's XML Schema Working Group. Prior to Extensibility, Lee founded Software Designs Unlimited, a commercial software developer serving clients such as National Geographic Society, Simon & Schuster and Charles Schwab. Lee is a contributing author to the XML Handbook as well as an award winning author of an AppleScript Rapid Application Development tool.

Mr. Burfield is founder and CEO of Synteractive, Inc., a Virginia-based, global technology consulting firm specializing in providing tailored solutions enabling organizations to effectively harness and leverage their knowledge. Mr. Burfield in conjunction with the Synteractive team developed the proprietary Intelligent Orchestration™ framework that combines organizational incentives, smart architecture, and collaborative tools to maximize return on an organization’s knowledge assets.

He launched his entrepreneurial career in 1995 by founding netDecide (acquired by Informa Investment Solutions in 2003), the leading provider of enterprise wealth management solutions to top tier financial service firms such as Bank of America and Legg Mason. Under his leadership, netDecide won numerous analyst recommendations and accolades, including the Investor’s Choice Award by the Financial Services Outlook Conference in 2001.

Selected as one of the Top 40 Emerging Leaders by Business Forward Magazine, Mr. Burfield was a Finalist for the Greater Washington Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award in 2001 as well named a 2001 Young Lion by The Washington Post. He has spoken at events such as the Midatlantic Venture Fair and the Securities Industry Association e-Business Strategy Conference and garnered media attention in The Washington Post, Washington Business Journal, ABA Banking Journal, Wall Street & Technology, and NBC 4.

Mr. Burfield holds a First Class degree in Joint Honors Philosophy, Politics and Economics from St. Catherine’s College at the University of Oxford. While at Oxford, he won the Webb Medley prize for most outstanding thesis for his work on the effects of organizational incentives on knowledge sharing.

Mr. Burton has played a leadership role in the development of US technology policy for over twenty years. Prior to joining salesforce.com in January 2006, he was Vice President of Government Affairs for Entrust (2000-2005) and Vice President for Government Relations for Novell (1995-2000), where he handled such issues as Internet security, online privacy, intellectual property, appropriations, education and R&D. Previously, he was President of the Council on Competitiveness where he was a pioneer in the effort to establish government technology policies for the US high-tech industry. Before joining the Council, Mr. Burton was the Executive Director of the Economic Policy Council of the United Nations Association-USA. He has also served as a Fellow in the US-Japan Leadership program and done economic development work in West Africa.

Mr. Burton has testified several times before Congress and has lectured widely in the US, Europe, Asia and Latin America. He holds an MA in political economy from Columbia University, a BA from the University of Pennsylvania and a Diplome de Langue et Civilisation Francasies from the Sorbonne. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Mr. Burton has edited three books, including Vision for the 1990s: US Strategy and the Global Economy, and written numerous articles on technology policy and competitiveness, which have appeared in Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, The New York Times, The Washington Quarterly, Scientific American and Issues in Science and Technology.

As an ambassador of email marketing and new media, Greg Cangialosi has built a reputation as a pioneer in today's online landscape. Cangialosi is a seasoned e-mail marketing veteran, developing and executing successful strategies for a wide and diverse client base. His organization, behind some of today's most successful email marketing initiatives, works with brands of national and international scope, from leading Fortune 500 companies to performing artists such as Justin Timberlake. In addition to email marketing strategy, he has pioneered corporate podcasting initiatives for companies including Verizon Wireless, GM/ Pontiac, Disney, Dow Chemical and Ortho-McNeil.

Cangialosi is a seasoned lecturer on the topic of email and podcasting, and produces the weekly podcast, ROI Radio (www.roiradio.com). He is currently the lead author of a new book on the emerging medium, and is an active blogger, authoring, The Trend Junkie (www.thetrendjunkie.com) since 2003. Cangialosi has been involved in online communication projects for today's most recognized brands including The PGA Tour, Under Armour, Improv Comedy Clubs, The McGraw-Hill Companies and TIG Global.

Cangialosi received his BA in English from UMBC (University of Maryland Baltimore County) where he currently serves on the university's alumni board of directors.

Ryan Carson is the Co-Founder of Carsonified.com, a UK-based company that is passionate about the web. Ryan is an entrepreneur and web advocate who has built successful web apps and web sites, including DropSend.com, FutureOfWebApps.com, FutureOfWebDesign.com, Future-of-Mobile.com and FutureOfOnlineAdvertising.com, HeyAmigo.net, BareNakedApp.com and ThinkVitamin.com.

Aneesh Chopra is currently Virginia's Fourth Secretary of Technology serving Governor Tim Kaine. In this capacity, he leads the Commonwealth's strategy to effectively leverage technology in government reform, promotes Virginia's innovation agenda, and fosters technology-related economic development with special emphasis on entrepreneurship.

Prior to joining Governor Kaine's cabinet, Aneesh served as Managing Director with the Advisory Board Company, a for-profit think tank providing strategic research to over 2,500 hospitals and health systems (NASD: ABCO). In this capacity, he leads the firm's Financial Leadership Council and the Working Council for Health Plan Executives, membership programs serving 500+ healthcare executives.

During his eight-year tenure with the Advisory Board, Aneesh led ten national research studies on innovative physician partnerships, improvements in labor productivity, and lessons on payment reform. In addition to his research duties, Aneesh has advised the launch of True North, a CIO membership program, and the firm's first technology-based service, Compass, a revenue cycle "business intelligence" platform.

In his civic life, Aneesh served at Governor Mark Warner's (D-VA) pleasure on Virginia's Board of Medical Assistance Services. In 2005, Governor Warner appointed him to the Electronic Health Records Task Force, including Virginia's leading hospitals, insurers, and physicians. In 2005, Aneesh served as Co-President of The Indus Entrepreneurs - Washington, DC Chapter, an organization committed to fostering innovation.

Aneesh graduated with a Masters in Public Policy from Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government in 1997. He graduated with a B.A. from The Johns Hopkins University in 1994.

Peter Coffee, former Technology Editor of enterprise IT journal eWEEK, works with corporate and commercial application developers to build a community based on Force.com: the salesforce.com Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS). He has almost 25 years' experience in guiding the adoption and management of innovative information technologies and practices as a developer, consultant, educator, and internationally published author; he has been a keynote speaker, moderator or presenter at IT events throughout the U.S. and in England, Canada and Australia. Peter was previously the first manager of PC planning at The Aerospace Corporation, and before that was a Senior Engineer in arctic project management and chemical facility construction for several divisions of Exxon Corporation; he holds an engineering degree from MIT and an MBA from Pepperdine University, and has held faculty appointments at Pepperdine and also at UCLA and Chapman College. He is the author of two books, How to Program Java and Peter Coffee Teaches PCs.

John Costigan, President and Founder of John Costigan Companies, conducts sales training classes around the world for a list of clients that reads like a ‘who’s who’ in the corporate world; Hewlett Packard, SAS Software, Experian, Exxon-Mobile, Tommy Hilfiger, IBM, CSC, and The NHL.

On a $100.00 bet from his brother, he started the company based on his belief that sales training is most effective when performed “live,” with real cold calls, real objections and real stalls being handled impromptu on an actual speaker phone in front of a live audience.

With the success of his unique training program, John released his first CD Set, What to Say and How to Say It, which has been sold in over 16 countries. A member of the National Speakers Association, John addresses sales forces and business organizations worldwide, sharing his knowledge and experience helping sales professionals master their craft and improve their lives.

He has hosted a weekly call-in radio show called “Everybody’s a Sales Person” and was a guest commentator offering expert opinions for a local media station during Donald Trump’s television series “The Apprentice”.

John holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Education from Northern Illinois University. An ex-professional basketball player and avid fan of athletics, he supports a variety of sports-related charities such as The Cal Ripken Senior Foundation, The Nolan Ryan Foundation, Dave Drevecky’s Outreach of Hope, and The Catfish Hunter ALS Foundation. Most recently, he has become a supporter of Tim Ferris’ LITLIBERATION and sits on The Board of Directors for Excellence in the Field of Sales and Education at Northern Illinois University’s School of Business.

A native of Chicago, John now resides in Raleigh/ Durham North Carolina. He has two beautiful children, Grace Catherine and Jack Ryan, and still prays nightly for a Chicago Cub’s World Championship.

John Daly was named vice president and general manager of Keane’s Global Architecture Services in March 2005 when Keane acquired technology consulting firm netNumina. Mr. Daly was managing director of netNumina at the time. Mr. Daly has more than 17 years experience in all phases of business and technology consulting including Strategic Planning, Operations, Supply Chain, BPO, Architecture and System Design. He is also an expert in Services Oriented Architecture (SOA). Throughout his tenure in the technology industry, Mr. Daly has been responsible for identifying and developing partnership with key Fortune 100 institutions to deliver strategic and tactical technology solutions. As Managing Director at netNumina, Mr. Daly was focused on delivering sophisticated technology solutions to large pharmaceutical and biotech companies, with particular expertise in the areas of portal development and enterprise application integration. Drawing from his experience with one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world, Mr. Daly pioneered netNumina's pharma/biotech and cross industry practice. Prior to joining netNumina, Mr. Daly spent the better part of his career as a key player in KPMG's national strategy practice, where he was responsible for designing and building activity-based costing systems for Fortune 1000 companies. Mr. Daly holds BS degrees in Accounting and Computer Science from Bentley College.

John Della Volpe is Director of Polling at Harvard Universitys Institute of Politics where he leads a public opinion survey group of students who study the attitudes of the Millennial Generation toward politics, public service and the media in the era of globalization. Since 2000, the IOP survey has tracked pre- and post-9/11 attitudes; accurately predicted the spikes in youth turnout in 2004 and 2006; addressed the growing importance of religion in the lives of young people; marked the generational shift in attitudes toward foreign policy; and provided insight into the ways in which Millennials communicate and form opinions. John is a veteran of four presidential campaigns and dozens of other high-profile races in the U.S. and abroad and speaks regularly about the impact of social media and technology in the 2008 campaign.

In addition, John is the founder of SocialSphere Strategies, a Web 2.0 strategy company that helps clients understand and engage customers, employees and other important stakeholders in various kinds of social computing in order to create brand and business value.

Stephen has more than 15 years of marketing and client management experience. With Compete, he has management oversight of Compete’s award-winning consumer services and emerging vertical markets. Stephen also oversees marketing of Compete’s intelligence and targeting services to fortune 500 companies. Previously, Mr. DiMarco was a co-founder of the Internet strategy consulting firm ZEFER and directed business development and marketing initiatives for News Corporation, where he negotiated multi-million dollar distribution agreements for the company's cable programming subsidiaries. Prior to News Corporation, Mr. DiMarco managed the creation of consumer campaigns for Comedy Central, a joint venture between Time Warner and Viacom.

Stephen holds a BS from Georgetown University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Brad has been an early stage investor and entrepreneur for over 20 years. Prior to co-founding Foundry Group, he co-founded Mobius Venture Capital and, prior to that, founded Intensity Ventures, a company that helped launch and operate software companies and later became a venture affiliate of the predecessor to Mobius Venture Capital.

Previously, Brad served as chief technology officer of AmeriData Technologies. AmeriData acquired Feld Technologies, a firm he founded in 1987 that specialized in custom software applications. Brad had grown Feld Technologies into one of Boston's leading software consulting firms prior to the acquisition. He also directed the diversification into software consulting at AmeriData, a $1.5 billion publicly-traded company which was acquired by GE Capital in 1995.

Jeff Fissel is President of KZO Government Group www.kzogov.com which is providing online training and communications services to the Federal government. He has also been a member of the development team which created an interactive and collaborative Flash video platform that is being marketed to corporations, federal government, and higher education. Jeff is an early adopter and pioneer with streaming video who has produced podcasts for numerous U. S. Department of Education conferences and Google’s education initiative. During the past 5 years, Jeff has also produced hundreds of global webcasts, ranging from events for President Bush in the Whitehouse to film festivals in Hollywood.

Matthew Glotzbach joined Google in 2004 and is responsible for the development and management of Google's enterprise product lines including Google Enterprise Search and Google Apps. Glotzbach specializes in the unique business and technology needs of enterprise customers and brings 10 years of enterprise product management, marketing, and sales experience to the Google team. Prior to joining Google, Glotzbach was a senior member of the management team for the Computer Industry Business Unit at Trilogy, an enterprise.

Jeff is an experienced entrepreneur with a successful track record in bringing ideas to market. He joined buySAFE as the second member of the company’s founding team and has been instrumental in shaping its direction. Today, as president and CEO, Jeff leads the company in executing against its strategic vision and oversees day-to-day operations of the business.

Prior to joining buySAFE, Jeff co-founded PayMyBills.com, an online bill management service. The company was an early success story in the dot com era, growing to more than 200 people and raising more than $35 million in venture capital prior to its sale. Before this, Jeff worked at Travelers Property Casualty Co., where he managed a $350 million book of surety guarantees and co-led the development of a new organization within Travelers Bond that wrote large surety guarantees for technology-based companies. His experience also includes serving as a strategy consultant with a focus on high tech companies at McKinsey & Company and as a visiting professor in managerial finance and business plan writing at James Madison University.

Jeff earned his Master of Business Administration from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania and a Bachelor of Business Administration from James Madison University, where in 2002 he was the youngest person in the school’s history to win James Madison University’s Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award.

As a senior product manager for AOL, Frank is responsible for the recently launched myAOL Personalization Suite. A former consultant for several Fortune 500 companies in the Chicago and Boston area, Frank also developed online product strategies for Apartments.com and Tribune Interactive, a subsidiary of the Tribune Company and the Technology Services Group.

Frank Gruber is a co-founder of TECH cocktail, a web/tech/business mixer event which connects the local technology and business in a number of under served communities like Chicago, Washington D.C., Boston and soon more. Frank's expert analysis on Web 2.0 and emerging technologies have been featured in TechCrunch, iMediaConnection, Technology Evangelists and on Somewhat Frank.

An avid blogger and active member of the blogoshpere with a wealth of experience in web technology and product development, Mr. Gruber received his Master's Degree in Computer Information Systems from Northwestern University, and his Bachelor's Degree in Computer Information Systems from Purdue University.

Janet brings to TMNG Global extensive experience in online business strategy, product development and marketing, and product strategy. Before coming to TMNG, she served as President of Flash Talk Communications, LLP, a start-up that developed and marketed a PCbased VoIP service targeted at the business market. She spent seven years at AOL, where she ran the product group that launched AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) and developed the plans for next generation features and services. She was also tapped to run the company's content management systems division, one of the largest engineering organizations at AOL. Earlier, as a product manager at MCI, she was responsible for launching Concert Virtual Network Service, then the company's flagship global corporate voice service. Janet holds a BA, summa cum laude, from Millsaps College in Jackson, MS, an MA from the University of Minnesota, and an MBA from the University of Maryland. She studied as a Fulbright Scholar at the University of the Saarland in Germany.

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• Online Business Communities and the Real World
• How Do You Create An Online B2B Community?
• Online Communities and the B2B Marketplace

Peter Harrison, who received the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year® 2007 award for the US North-Atlantic Region, is a twenty year plus veteran of the IT industry. Currently he is CEO of GlobalLogic, the world leader in the rapidly expanding Global Product Development market that has experienced 80% annual revenue growth for the past three years. Prior to joining GlobalLogic, Harrison was senior vice president of field operations at Versata (NASDAQ: VATA), a leading provider of rules automation solutions. While at Versata, Harrison increased revenues to $56 million within four years. In addition to raising over $170 million in private and public funds, Harrison also scaled Versata’s sales and customer support operations and trained over 300 team members.


Prior to Versata, Harrison co-founded Seer Technologies, a leading provider of IT consulting services. Harrison helped build revenues to $120 million within five years and took the company public in 1995. He also played a leading role in establishing international field operations, which swiftly grew to represent over 60% of the company’s revenues. Before co-founding Seer, Harrison held various positions at IT and consulting companies such as Credit Suisse First Boston and Logica Plc. Harrison is a graduate in software engineering from Birmingham University in the United Kingdom.

Harrison is a frequent speaker and panelist at industry events; examples include TieCon 2007 Silicon Valley, Software Business 2006, and upcoming technology conferences in Washington DC and Kiev.

Hinchcliffe & Company is led by Dion Hinchcliffe, well-known business thinker and Internet strategist, who speaks, writes, and works prolifically hands-on with clients in the Fortune 500, federal government, and the Internet startup community. Mr. Hinchcliffe also helps lead the industry by evolving the thinking around strategic online business development and Web 2.0 in the enterprise as a well-known industry commentator for ZDNet as well as a high-profile Internet blogger. He is the Founding Editor-in-Chief of the respected Web 2.0 Journal and launched the nationally distributed print journal, AjaxWorld Magazine, for SYS-CON Media as Editor-in-Chief. He is also currently Editor-in-Chief of Social Computing Magazine and and is founder of Web 2.0 University^TM and the Enterprise 2.0 TV Show from Times Square, New York City. Mr. Hinchcliffe has been quoted often by BusinessWeek, CNET News, Wired Magazine, CIO Magazine, Entrepreneur, and other well-known business and tech industry periodicals. He has publlished cover stories for various business and technology journals, a reading list is available on request. Mr. Hinchcliffe is also is a regular speaker on the topic of Web 2.0 and Enterprise 2.0 and has presented or keynoted around the globe at the Business Integration Forum, Web 2.0 Expo, Enterprise 2.0 Conference, Interop (East and West), JavaOne, SOA Web Services Edge, Collaboration Technologies Conference, AjaxWorld, Office 2.0, and many other major software conferences. Finally, Mr. Hinchcliffe provides strategic consulting and heavy-lifting execution personally and through his staff to clients large and small around the world including AOL, Accenture, Best Buy, Gucci, IBM, Microsoft, T. Rowe Price, and The World Bank.

As a youngster, John Hlinko never dreamed he would grow up to record a Grammy-winning duet with country music legend Willie Nelson. And indeed, it never happened. But John has been long recognized as an innovator on the grassroots engagement front, received numerous awards for his work, and been covered by nearly all the major broadcast and print news outlets. He has also been quoted as a grassroots expert in books ranging from "Power Public Relations" to "Burning at the Grassroots."

John previously served as the Vice President of Marketing and Creative Engagement with the Grassroots Enterprise. During his tenure in that role, he helped drive a nearly 300% increase in the firm's revenues. In recognition of his work, the American Association of Political Consultants awarded him its prestigious "Rookie of the Year" Pollie, an award for excellence in public affairs. In 2004, he was named one of the world's top 25, "individuals, organizations and companies that are having the greatest impact on the way the Internet is changing politics," by the World Forum on e-Democracy. And in early 2006, PR Week named him as one of the top five "PR Professionals of the Year."

John was the founder of "DraftWesleyClark.com," one of the most successful grassroots movements in American political history, and the 2004 "Golden Dot" winner for "Best Breakout/Impact Internet Movement."

In 1998, he helped lead MoveOn.org, an anti-impeachment petition that generated over half a million signatures and several million dollars in donations, and redefined American democracy. John also is the creator of ActForLove.org, a dating site for activists that promises the opportunity to "take action, get action." Prior to joining Grassroots Enterprise, John worked with the Carol/Trevelyan Strategy Group, Ogilvy Public Relations, the American Civil Liberties Union, and Lehman Brothers.

John holds a BA from Wesleyan University and an MA in public policy from Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government. He also came in second place at Valley Stream Central High School for "class clown." But the guy who came in first ended up on Saturday Night Live, so cut him some slack, okay?

Holsten has run a wide range of technology and media enterprises over the last two decades. As President of Ziff Davis International, Holston managed Ziff Davis' operations across more than 100 countries, and launched Yahoo! Europe. He was part of the senior management team that led the successful LBO of ZD by Forstmann, Little, and subsequent sale to Softbank. Since selling his last technology start-up, Holston has helped create a wide range of for-profit and not-for-profit entities, including Media-x at Stanford, among several others. After receiving a BA in creative writing from Stanford in 1979, he taught English at Phillips Academy, worked as a consultant for the Boston Consulting Group in Boston, studied and wrote in Paris, France, then worked in strategic planning for NBC and RCA. J.B. received his MBA from Stanford in 1986, then worked on Jack Welch's staff at GE before moving back to NBC where for five years he was responsible for strategic planning and NBC's international operations.

Andrew Hoppin co-founded the NASA CoLab project at NASA Ames Research Center, which builds online and offline partnerships between NASA and external communities of practice such as the entrepreneurial technology community of the San Francisco Bay Area, the global open-source software movement, and space advocates in the virtual world of "Second Life."

As an entrepreneur, Andrew has co-founded and directed business development for GoodStorm, a progressive eCommerce venture that helps organizations raise money to support themselves, and Trellon, a leading open-source software consulting firm for online community building, and MoonFront, an aerospace design consulting firm. He also directed business strategy for CivicSpace Labs, a developer of software and communities for online organizing and advocacy, and executed marketing campaigns for leading technology startups such as mobile messaging provider Jaiku (now Google) and online geographic data provider N Space Labs.

As a grassroots political organizer, in 2003, Andrew founded the largest local group in the Draft Clark movement, New York for Clark, and later joined the Wesley Clark for President campaign staff to help manage the campaign's voter data and the nation's first open-source campaign software volunteer program. He also co-created the "RootsCamp" political meeting series in Second Life in 2006, and the Yearly Kos "virtual convention" in Second Life in 2007.

Andrew serves on the Advisory Boards of Netroots Nation (formerly Yearly Kos), the Space Generation Foundation, Yenza and the New Organizing Institute. Andrew is a graduate of the NASA Academy and the International Space University and holds bachelor's and master's degrees from Brown University and UC Berkeley in Planetary Sciences and in Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, respectively.

Hans Hwang leads the Cisco Advanced Services Unified Communications Practice. He is responsible for driving services strategy for enterprise voice, rich media, unified messaging, and video, in partnership with the Cisco Voice Technology and Collaboration Solutions groups. In addition, Hans manages a services practice team that plays a pivotal role in some of the most strategic and complex Unified Communications engagements worldwide. His team of networking professionals brings expertise in large-scale project delivery, voice and video architecture, workplace and business to business collaboration, process integration, and tools. to support customers and partners

Prior to Cisco, Hans was an Executive Partner in the Communications and High Tech practice of Accenture. Over his 16 year career at Accenture, Hans implemented critical technology improvements with customers in the telecommunications, software, media, financial services, consumer products, and pharmaceutical industries. He has managed projects of over 50,000 person-days for Fortune 50 companies and has consulted with numerous start-ups to formulate business strategy. Hans played a key role in expanding Accenture’s alliance with Microsoft, which has been recognized by analysts as a major success. He was also the lead for Accenture’s Technology Infrastructure, helping clients with strategic data center, networking, security, and mobility challenges.

Hans is recognized for his work in hosted/managed services, service delivery platforms, software-as-a-service (SaaS) and alliance formation/execution. He has collaborated extensively across the telecommunications and technology industries to help bring new products and services to enterprise and SMB markets.

As a recognized thought leader in messaging and collaboration, Hans often speaks at events such as Gartner's Collaboration Summit, VoiceCon, and ITU Telecom World. He has been quoted in a number of industry publications, and has several pending patents involving service delivery and e-commerce.

Hans received a BS in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania Wharton School of Business, and is President of the Asian Pacific-Islander American Corporate Leadership Network (ACLN).

Founder and CEO, AdaptiveBlue Alex launched AdaptiveBlue because he was inspired by the vision of a personalized web. He is passionate about building elegant software that helps people save time and makes their online experience effective and enjoyable.

His previous startup, Information Laboratory, was focused on applying the ideas of Complexity Science to software engineering. Alex and his team developed a tool, called Small Worlds, which automatically identified structural problems in large-scale software systems. After Information Laboratory was acquired by IBM, Alex worked in the IBM Automated Software Quality group as an architect. Alex hold B.S. in Mathematics from Leigh University and M.S. in Computer Science from New York University.